Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Veronica calycina
Common name
Hairy Speedwell, Cup Speedwell, Forest Speedwell
Family
Plantaginaceae
Where found
Forest and woodland. Widespread. Rare on the Western Slopes.
Notes
Perennial herb to 0.45 m high, rooting at the nodes. Stolons to 0.5 m long. Flowering stems hairy with long hairs 1–2 mm long, the hairs tending to be denser in two broad indistinct longitudinal bands. Leaves opposite each other, 0.7–3 cm long, 5–20 mm wide, sometimes hairy, bases squared off to slightly cordate, margins with 3–13 pairs of coarse and irregular blunt teeth, tips rounded or somewhat pointed. Flowers pale blue or pinkish, or mauve to violet, 10-12 mm in diameter, with a tube 4–6 mm long, and 4 spreading lobes. Stamens 2. Flowers in clusters of 1-10 flowers. Flowering: spring–summer.
Family was Scrophulariaceae.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Veronica~calycina (accessed 8 February, 2021)
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